Download Epson WorkForce Pro WF-M5694 Drivers for Mac and Windows

Offered the color-soaked, full-HD digital age we live in today, there sure are a great deal of black-and-white company printers worldwide. And most of them-- as well as by that, we indicate just about one or two-- are printer. Taking into account that, today's evaluation system, Epson WorkForce Pro WF-M5694 Black and white Printer, is the rarest of rare birds. One of few modern-day monochrome-only inkjets we know of, it's likewise the just such multifunction-printer (MFP) model in recent memory. Provided the price and also the ink system, as you 'd think, this device is made for mass text and also document outcome.

Without a doubt, it's practically unique. Epson, for instance, makes one more mono-only WorkForce design, the non-" Pro"- marked WorkForce WF-M1030, a single-function "just-a-printer" maker with a much reduced ability as well as a smaller sized feature collection. However, after a comprehensive search of Brother's, Canon's, and also HP's Website, while we did find numerous single-function shade inkjets, inkjet designs that print just in black-and-white simply weren't a point. Considering the substantial possible target-- the many black-and-white laser printers on the marketplace begging to be replaced by an inkjet maker with a much more hostile cost per web page-- we were surprised.

And that's how Epson markets this machine: as a mono-laser competitor with low-cost black ink as well as just one cartridge to switch out when the time comes. Not only is the WorkForce Pro WF-M5694 a reasonably robust black-and-white printer, with a 45,000-page regular monthly obligation cycle (the variety of pages Epson claims you can print each month without overly exhausting the hardware), yet it's additionally a full-featured MFP. Higher-end functions that you might get out of a printer in this price range, such as an auto-duplexing automatic document feeder (ADF), substantial ink cartridges, as well as PCL and also PostScript emulation, provide added value.

In general, inkjet printers hold a number of benefits over laser equipments in company printing. Inkjets, for one, use much less power than do their laser equivalents, as well as they publish livelier and also better-detailed graphics and also photos. And lately, particular inkjet printers (primarily, business-focused designs) have actually shocked the marketplace by delivering monochrome prints at remarkably reduced per-page ink expenses. Epson Pro WF-R4640$ 279.99 at Amazon.com, for example, takes care of black-and-white prints for under a dime's well worth of ink each. (Given, that's a four-figure printer that has a ton of ink in the box.) So do a couple of inkjet devices from HP and also Brother.

Much more realistic than the WF-R4640 is the Brother MFC-J5920DW$ 247.00 at Amazon.com, one more ink miser, which publishes monochrome pages at nine-tenths of a cent each. An additional benefit of these devices simply discussed is that, in addition to publishing great black-and-white and also gray-scale documents, photos, and graphics, they could likewise publish in color as needed-- occasionally, depending upon the equipment itself, in fantastic shade.

As a mono-only printer, the WF-M5694 doesn't have that versatility, of course. So we expected that its prime factor for being-- a really inexpensive per web page for monochrome web pages-- would offset that. Sadly, compared with some of the equipments just stated, the mathematics just does not sustain that completely. Its price per web page for monochrome prints is a bit soaring for that of a high-volume inkjet printer. That delegates this printer to even more of a personal-use or light-duty MFP, relative to some completing devices. As well as whether any kind of $399 mono-only printer qualifies for that function is skeptical.

There is a potential flip side to this equation. Especially compared to what you obtain from black-and-white laser printers, this MFP's output (for the most part) is rather good when it concerns printing images and also graphics in monochrome. That's a thing that several monochrome printer usually do not do well. If you're in the uncommon function of needing just mono result-- yet that mono output has great deals of ingrained graphics, charts, and images-- this printer could be a good-if-quirky fit, as well as it will get rid of the have to stress over shade ink containers. However we still think, without a knockout ink rate, it's a little bit expensive wherefore it is.

From the outdoors, the Epson WorkForce Pro WF-M5694 resembles a midrange multifunction printer, topped by a 35-sheet ADF. The latter equipment permits scanning, duplicating, and faxing two-sided multi-page files without turning the originals manually. Note that this is a traditional ADF that feeds each side of a dual-sided document consequently past the scanning component, not a model with twin scanning heads that check both sides of a web page in one stroke. When utilized in conjunction with the duplexing print engine, you can copy approximately 35 two-sided web pages (70 sides) without customer intervention.

At 18.1 inches throughout, by 25.8 inches front to back, by 15.1 inches high, and also considering a stout 31 extra pounds, this MFP is about the very same size and weight we had actually get out of a similar laser or laser-class (LED-array) printer. It's a little too huge for your desktop computer, but not so big that you must have problem locating an area for it, particularly thinking about all of this printer's connection alternatives.